Nancy Doubleday 1

Inuit value patience a great deal. And so, giving time to understand before speaking or acting is certainly a part of Inuit culture. And so, the issues of adaptation are things that people like to work out over time. So, there are cultural responses to that question that I think are really importantant. But there are other manifestations of culture relations with landscapes that are also relevant. For example, the western construct of land as property, versus Inuit constructs of land as living environment. And ways that we demarcate ownership and control, in fact, I believe limit our adaptive capacity in Western societies. Looking at alternative ways of inhabiting landscape offer some alternative perspectives.

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